There's no theoretical way to prevent this, right? That is, any system in which connectivity might be lost must in some case either claim a message was sent when it wasn't, or that it wasn't when it was? --Michael On Sep 1, 2012 3:53 PM, "Bill Gosper" <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
I said [I have no idea how or why GMail sent two copies of this.]
Due to marginal connectivity, > ½ the time I click Send, GMail says "An error occurred and your message was not sent". This sometimes gives me a chance to add a couple of afterthoughts before retrying. But GMail turns out to be lying--the message *was* sent, at least to some recipients, so it looks like I'm bothering you all with resends of trivial afterthoughts. --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun